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Star Trek: Bridge Crew is a virtual-reality action-adventure video game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Oculus Quest.[1]

Star Trek: Bridge Crew takes place in the timeline established in the 2009 Star Trek film and sees the Starfleet ship USS Aegis searching for a new homeworld for the Vulcans after the destruction of their planet. The ship heads for a region of space called 'The Trench', which is being occupied by Klingons.[2]

Gameplay[edit]

The game is played through four roles: captain, tactical officer, engineer and helm officer. The captain is the only role to which mission objectives are directly displayed; they are responsible for communicating these to the crew and issuing orders to accomplish them. The helm officer controls the ship's course and travel between regions through impulse or warp drive. The tactical officer is in charge of sensors and weapons. The engineer manages the ship's power distribution and supervises repairs. Each role except the captain may be occupied by a human player or by an NPC indirectly controlled by the captain. Both story and randomly generated missions exist.[3]

In December 2017, the game developers modified the game so that it can be played without a virtual-reality headset. Prior to that, the game could only be played using a headset.[4]

Development[edit]

It was developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. Series actors Karl Urban, LeVar Burton and Jeri Ryan appeared at E3 2016 to promote the game during Ubisoft's press conference.[5] A new trailer was showcased at CES 2017.[6] The game was released on May 30, 2017.[7]

Reception[edit]

Star Trek: Bridge Crew received "generally positive" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[8][9] Eurogamer ranked it 42nd on their list of the "Top 50 Games of 2017",[15] while GamesRadar+ ranked it 25th on their list of the 25 Best Games of 2017.[16]

Many reviews compared it to Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator, an indie game inspired by Star Trek, stating that Star Trek: Bridge Crew is basically "Artemis in the Star Trek universe".[17][18][19]

Star Trek: Bridge Crew has been delisted across multiple storefronts, with the few remaining platforms likely to follow.

The game, which was previously available for PC VR, PSVR and Quest headsets, is no longer available for purchase on the Oculus Store (for both PC and Quest) and on Steam. It is still available in select regions on the PlayStation Store for PSVR, while the PC VR version is seemingly still available to purchase through Ubisoft.

No reasoning or announcement has been made to explain why it’s being delisted, but given the game involves licensing arrangements to use the Star Trek brand, it’s very likely that the license is now expired. This often happens with games based on other popular properties, like older Marvel titles. In fact, Rift-exclusive Marvel: Powers United VR suffered the same fate in 2020.

When visiting the store pages for Bridge Crew on Oculus for PC and Quest, the game is still visible but not available to purchase. The Steam page for the PC VR version of the game is the same, however it is accompanied by a small message reading “At the request of the publisher, Star Trek: Bridge Crew is no longer available for sale on Steam.”

While the game remains on sale on the PlayStation Store for PSVR and through Ubisoft for PC VR, it seems unlikely that those versions of the game will remain available indefinitely while the others are delisted.

Generally, when a game is delisted those who own the game are still able to access it and may remain unaffected so they can play the game in its existing state, with no future updates. That said, Bridge Crew is primarily meant to be played online with others even though it does have a single-player mode. Therefore, purchasing the game at this point could be a risk since we don’t know if the multiplayer portion of the game will remain operable and for how long. We’re reaching out to Ubisoft to ask about its plan for the multiplayer services in Bridge Crew. We’ll update this post if we hear back.

At the time of writing, Star Trek: Bridge Crew is available on the PlayStation Store for PSVR and Ubisoft for PC VR.

This post was updated from its original version with a different purchasing recommendation for Star Trek: Bridge Crew in the penultimate paragraph.

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